Riex

Riex is first mentioned in 1184 as Ruez. ==Geography==

Riex has an area, , of . Of this area, or 75.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 9.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.7% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.8%. Out of the forested land, 5.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 6.6% is used for growing crops and 35.0% is pastures, while 34.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Lavaux vineyards. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Riex and the Tower of Gourze. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per bend Gules and Argent, overall from a Base irregular Vert issuant a vine tree of the same fructed counterchanged. ==Demographics==

Riex has a population () of 290. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 3.6%. It has changed at a rate of -2.1% due to migration and at a rate of 5% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (259 or 86.3%), with German being second most common (21 or 7.0%) and Portuguese being third (7 or 2.3%). There are 2 people who speak Italian. , there were 103 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 160 married individuals, 21 widows or widowers and 16 individuals who are divorced. the average number of residents per living room was 0.54 which is fewer people per room than the cantonal average of 0.61 per room. About 53.1% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage or a rent-to-own agreement). , there were 140 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.1 persons per household. there were 151 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 46. There were 11 single room apartments and 35 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 128 apartments (84.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 21 apartments (13.9%) were seasonally occupied and 2 apartments (1.3%) were empty. Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1140 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:400 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:80 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:16 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1550 from:start till:84 bar:1550 at:94 fontsize:S text: "21 Hearths" shift:(8,5) bar:1764 from:start till:294 text:"294" bar:1798 from:start till:351 text:"351" bar:1850 from:start till:368 text:"368" bar:1860 from:start till:353 text:"353" bar:1870 from:start till:397 text:"397" bar:1880 from:start till:353 text:"353" bar:1888 from:start till:365 text:"365" bar:1900 from:start till:349 text:"349" bar:1910 from:start till:287 text:"287" bar:1920 from:start till:273 text:"273" bar:1930 from:start till:310 text:"310" bar:1941 from:start till:276 text:"276" bar:1950 from:start till:291 text:"291" bar:1960 from:start till:291 text:"291" bar:1970 from:start till:289 text:"289" bar:1980 from:start till:293 text:"293" bar:1990 from:start till:282 text:"282" bar:2000 from:start till:300 text:"300" ==Heritage sites of national significance==

The municipality includes part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site: Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces which is also listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Riex is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 22.3% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (21.35%), the Green Party (17.67%) and the LPS Party (14.93%). In the federal election, a total of 115 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 60.8%. ==Economy==

, Riex had an unemployment rate of 1.7%. , there were 39 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 12 businesses involved in this sector. 6 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 5 businesses in this sector. 38 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 8 businesses in this sector. , there were 40 workers who commuted into the municipality and 106 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 8.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 65.6% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 69 or 23.0% were Roman Catholic, while 170 or 56.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.00% of the population), and there were 10 individuals (or about 3.33% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. 45 (or about 15.00% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 8 individuals (or about 2.67% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Weather==

Riex has an average of 125.6 days of rain or snow per year and on average receives of precipitation. The wettest month is June during which time Riex receives an average of of rain or snow. During this month there is precipitation for an average of 11.4 days. The month with the most days of precipitation is May, with an average of 12.3, but with only of rain or snow. The driest month of the year is February with an average of of precipitation over 10.1 days. ==Education==

In Riex about 113 or (37.7%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 58 or (19.3%) have completed additional higher education (either University or a Fachhochschule). Of the 58 who completed tertiary schooling, 60.3% were Swiss men, 27.6% were Swiss women. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 665 children of which 232 children (34.9%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 16 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 16 students in those schools. , there was one student in Riex who came from another municipality, while 45 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==